Taxon change incomplete

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So about a year I made this flag asking for Dypsis sensu lato to be split back up into Dypsis sensu stricto, Chrysalidocarpus and Vonitra per POWO:

https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/690128

August 24 and the flag was finally seen (not resolved though) and Dypsis lutescens was moved to Chrysalidocarpus:

https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes?taxon_id=276548

However evidently whoever was doing this didn’t complete it, as all the other Chrysalidocarpus species are still under Dypsis and also Vonitra doesn’t exist.
How do I get this fixed?

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Are you interested in becoming a curator?

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Honestly I don’t know. I feel like if I do I’m not really going to use my curator abilities on anything apart from occasional stuff I notice (like this) and snails. And snails don’t need that much curation.

So it’s more practical to just flag for the occasional time when curation is actually needed

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I don’t really use my curator abilities on anything apart from occasional stuff I notice and particular taxa where I take a stronger interest (New World Iridaceae). No one seems to have a problem with that. Curation work is 100% voluntary. If you have an interest in occasionally fixing stuff it would be great to have your assistance!

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Yeah you don’t have to be crazy active as a curator. I have curator status but I mostly applied for it because I do a lot of stuff with sequencing and (quite often) species pop up that haven’t been added to iNat - it’s a lot easier to add it myself than have to wait for another curator to see a flag.

I basically don’t mess with things like taxa swaps

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Thank you. Dypsis was such an ugly name for the Butterfly Palm.

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